Breaking News – Charlotte Leslie to star on Celebrity Big Brother

A glamorous Tory who posed in a red Baywatch-style swimsuit is due to pocket a six-figure fee for appearing on Celebrity Big Brother.Charlotte Leslie, 39, the former MP for Bristol North West and a vicar’s daughter, will appear on the programme in January.The programme is choosing ‘strong, empowered’ female contestants to take part to mark 100 years since women got the vote, while the men will be selected later.A source told The Sun: ‘January’s series will mark 100 years since women won the vote and is all about, strong, empowered women.’Channel 5 bosses have been desperate to sign a female politician and they are thrilled that they’ve managed to land Charlotte.’Channel 5 newsreader India Willoughby, 51, has also been in talks with the show, according to The Sun, as has Made In Chelsea star India Willoughby.Miss Leslie, a Brexit supporter who was named the ‘sexiest MP in parliament’, lost her seat in the 2017 snap general election.She posed in a red swimsuit to raise awareness of the lifesaving efforts carried out daily on Britain’s coasts.It mirrored a photograph taken in 1999 when she was just 20, which shows the then student working as a lifeguard in Cornwall during her university summers.After her lifeguarding work, Miss Leslie worked in television for the BBC and Sky, and worked as a part-time Classics tutor.She joined the Policy Exchange think tank in 2005 and became an advisor for David Willets then Shadow Secretary of state for Children, Schools and Families.In 2011, while in parliament, she was appointed as David Cameron’s Big Society ambassador.She was praised by George Osborne for helping to abolish the beer duty escalator, which added 2% plus inflation to the cost of beer duty each year.Miss Leslie called off her engagement to BBC local radio presenter John Davell last year. The pair met five years ago and got engaged on Christmas Day 2014.She’s not the first! Other politicians who have starred on reality TV The former Scottish Labour leader appeared on this year’s series of ITV’s I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. She was voted out on Sunday night, after an eventful time on the show which included numerous arguments with boxer Amir Khan. On her exit from the show, the Scottish politician declared she was ‘free at last’, as she insisted to show hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly that she was ‘ready to go’ after 12 days in camp. She did not reveal the exact fee she had been paid for appearing on the show, but boasted that it was ‘not in any sense small’. Kezia Dugdale appeared on this year’s series of ITV’s I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here The former Respect MP is famed for perhaps the most cringeworthy moment in Big Brother history, when he pretended to be a pussy cat. During an awkward role-playing task with Rula Lenska on the 2006 series, the MP got down on his hands and knees and began to purr like a moggy. Clothed in a white one-piece, George pretended to lick food out of Rula’s hands. George Galloway pretended to be a c
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